Victim Perpetrators Quotes

#1. Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

#2. Black men built the railroads, not blue eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Diane Sawyer

#4. The most dangerous identity is that of victim. Once we see ourselves as victims, we can clearly identify a enemy. Steeped in our own victimhood, we no longer feel bound by moral considerations in becoming perpetrators.

Julie Mertus

#5. Exercising the right to vote is essential to our democracy.

Eric Schneiderman

#6. Beware of perpetrators in disguise ... Some people set fires wherever they go, and have mastered the art of playing the burn victim.

Steve Maraboli

#7. It is easy to sanctify policies or identities by the deaths of victims. It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never that one might become a victim but that one might be a perpetrator or a bystander.

Timothy Snyder

#8. That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Meredith Monk

#9. Victim-stancing - whereby the offender claims and believes that s/he is the real victim (one of the most prevalent sophistries in the false memory controversies)

Harvey L. Schwartz

#10. Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Jalal Talabani

#11. Something is very, very wrong when people don't have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.

Vandana Shiva

#12. There is no defence against an evil which only the victims and the perpetrators know exists.

Christopher X. Brodeur

#13. We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

Melissa Etheridge

#14. After a victim is made to participate in an act of evil, the people in charge put a lot of energy into convincing the child or adult that he or she is evil and a perpetrator rather than a victim.p324

Alison Miller

#15. If parents don't want to hear the truth, children learn not to speak it.

Nikki Sex

#16. I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.

Rachel Platten

#17. My dad was part of the Oriole way. I think he was there 14 years in the minor leagues; I think seven of those years, they had the same people in place. So it was about continuity. It was about stability.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#18. I'm into short emails.

Denis McDonough

#19. The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught.

Emily Yoffe

#20. It is easier to suppose that the universe has existed for all eternity than to conceive a being beyond its limits capable of creating it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley